Yeah Pacman is aaiight, I also like APT, well most of the Distro's I have used have been Debian based so used APT. Arch is nice and "bare bones", and makes me feel all geeky.

Definetly geeky but worth it :D I think i needed 4 hours to install, but learned a lot. On a fresh installed Debian i wasn't able to install cinnamon, because of many dependency conflicts, so I switched to arch and I'm very happy with it :D

I left Linux in 2012 - here's my story - and recommend everyone to follow my example. systemd is the last thing you'd ever want to have on your desktops, trust me.There is close to no reason to still use Linux for anything, except "using Steam without having to pay for a Windows license" (if you haven't had one yet). For all other purposes, there's BSD.

I never understand the hate against systemd. Works very well for me, and if you dont want to use it, dont use it. Pick another distro or build it on your own. If some software depends on systemd, dont use it. If there are enough people who think like you, there will be alternatives.

Yeah I sort of do still (and I used to like LM, it just feels too "windowsy" for me. Admittedly I installed Cinnamon and it's basically the same, but I like the difficulty of Arch, keeps me on my toes).

I left Linux in 2012 - here's my story - and recommend everyone to follow my example. systemd is the last thing you'd ever want to have on your desktops, trust me.There is close to no reason to still use Linux for anything, except "using Steam without having to pay for a Windows license" (if you haven't had one yet). For all other purposes, there's BSD.

I read the topic, still am unsure as to why you hate linux (did you lose files?) or SystemD, I actually like it.

I don't hate Linux, it's just that it doesn't anything better than other available operating systems (or kernels) anymore. (Yes, I lost files - Linux just tends to have close to no QA, leading to banana software, maturing with the customer.) Systemd is a different beast, basically kidnapping most system core functionality and replacing it with abstraction layers which just make things worse.

One day, end users will have forgot that Linux admins could parse their system logs without third-party applications, only using cat and grep from the POSIX kit. Sweet old times. Admittedly, I never used systemd as I jumped from the sinking Linux boat before it was integrated, but the existing virtual machines make me feel sick yet.

openSUSE, that said, is a nice beginner Linux, much better than Ubuntu for what it does - if you like it.

I don't hate Linux, it's just that it doesn't anything better than other available operating systems (or kernels) anymore. (Yes, I lost files - Linux just tends to have close to no QA, leading to banana software, maturing with the customer.) Systemd is a different beast, basically kidnapping most system core functionality and replacing it with abstraction layers which just make things worse.

That can be said about anything, however why not try and help the alternative movement rather than complain about it?